Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor, born on December 1st, 1940, Peoria, Illinois, U.S. was a stand-up comedian, actor, and writer, who reached a wide audience with his trenchant observations and storytelling style, being widely regarded as one of the greatest, most influential stand-up comedians of all time. His body of work includes the concert movies and recordings: Richard Pryor: Live & Smokin' (1971), That Nigger's Crazy (1974), ...Is It Something I Said? (1975), Bicentennial Nigger (1976), Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (1979), Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip (1982), and Richard Pryor: Here and Now (1983).